Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three ma…
Did the giant know Jack was a little sneak?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant, Jack · What happens: know, be · To what, where: little sneak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1167 «Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three magic gifts, tricks his way to the top, and wins the king's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sneak | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sneak | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sneak | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sneak | amod |
| 9 | sneak | sneak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · do-support | the giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Jack | a little sneak | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he thought Jack stole the treasure.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 treasure | det |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | steal | past | Jack | the treasure | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he never noticed anything, because Jack was a very clever boy really.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 noticed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 noticed | advmod |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 noticed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boy | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 boy | mark |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 boy | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 clever | advmod |
| 13 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boy | amod |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | parataxis |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 boy | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | past | he | anything | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Jack | a clever boy | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, he thought Jack stole the treasure and chased him down the hill.
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 treasure | det |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chased | cc |
| 10 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 chased | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 chased | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hill | det |
| 14 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chased | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | steal | past | Jack | the treasure | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chase down | past | he not said here | Jack | tree rules |
Option 4
Nah, he thought Jack was honest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 honest | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 honest | cop |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Jack | honest property | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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